Language and Style represents the state-of-the-art in literary stylistics andencompasses the full breadth of current research in the discipline. Written by leading scholars in the field, chapters cover a variety of approaches, from traditional qualitative analysis to more recent developments in cognitive and corpus stylistics. INDICE: Introduction; D.McIntyre; B.Busse - PART I: PRELIMINARIES - Analysing Literature Through Language; G.Leech - Recent Trends in New Historical Stylistics; B.Busse - Methodologies for Stylistic Analysis: Practices and Pedagogies; R.Carter - PART II: THE STYLISTICS OF POETRY - The Stylistics of Poetry: Walter de la Mare's 'The Listeners'; K.Wales - Foregrounding; W.van Peer - A Cognitive Stylistic Reading of Rhetorical Patterns in Ted Hughes's 'Hawk Roosting'; P.Verdonk - 'The Unprofessionals': Syntactic Iconicity and Reader Interpretation in Contemporary Poems; L.Jeffries - Text Worlds in Poetry; E.Semino - Public House Confidence: The Indispensability of Sound Patterns; T.Barney - PART III: THE STYLISTICS OF DRAMA - The Stylistics of Drama: Universal Elements;M.Munkelt - Dialogue and Characterisation in Quentin Tarantino's 'Reservoir Dogs': A Corpus Stylistic Analysis; D.McIntyre - 'See Better, Lear?' See Lear Better! A Corpus-Based Pragma-Stylistic Investigation of Shakespeare's King Lear; D.Bousfield; D.Archer - Activity Types, Incongruity and Humour in Dramatic Discourse; D.McIntyre; J.Culpepper - PART IV: THE STYLISTICS OF NARRATIVE FICTION - The Stylistics of Narrative Fiction; D.Shen - Authorial Style; D.Hoover - 2D and 3D Visualization of Stance in Popular Fiction; L.L.Opas-Hänninen; T.Seppänen - Point of View; P.Simpson - The Intrinsic Importance of Sentence-Typeand Clause-Type to Narrative Effect: Or, How Alice Munro's 'Circle of Prayer'Gets Started; M.Toolan - Detective Fiction, Plot Construction and Reader Manipulation: Rhetorical Control and Cognitive Misdirection in Agatha Christie's 'Sparkling Cyanide'; C.Emmott; M.Alexander - Narration and Metaphor; M.Fludernik - Wmatrix, Key-Concepts and the Narrators in Julian Barnes' 'Talking it Over'; B.Walker - Writing Presentation, The Epistolary Novel and Free Indirect Thought; J.Bray - 'Appeased By The Certitude': The Quiet Disintegration of the Paranoid Mind in 'The Mustache'; J.Gavins - The Eleventh Checksheet of the Apocalypse; P.Stockwell - Multimodality: Extending the Stylistic Toolkit; N.Norgaard - Corpus Approaches to Narrative Fiction; M.Mahlberg - Stylistics, Linguistics and Literature: A Short Afterword; G.Hall - References - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-23157-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
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- Fecha Publicación: 27/08/2010
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